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From: lvc@cbvox.att.com (Lawrence V Cipriani)
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Subject: Re: .223 to little for deer, but big enough for people?
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Date: 18 Apr 91 11:33:23 GMT
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In article <544@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> tas@sat.datapoint.com (Tom Stewart) writes:
>However, I haven't really ever understood why a .223 is big enough for
>the military to shoot at 200+ pound warriors in a battle but not big
>enough for a 50-130 pound deer at rest.

The goal of the military with the .223 is to INJURE the opposing
warriors.  The theory being it costs the opposition more to take care
of a wounded soldier than to throw the corpse down a hole.  This
theory doesn't work when your oppostion decides that injured warriors
are too much of a burden and just executes them, which I understand
the Viet Cong did.

.30-06, .308, .223, see the trend to lighter faster bullets?  Designs
for the next military cartridge include flechettes, basically darts!

The goal of deer hunters is to kill the deer as soon as possible.
This requires a more powerful cartridge, e.g. .30-06, than .223.
-- 
Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox!lvc or lvc@cbvox.att.com
"Offensive is in the eye of the beholder." -- me